The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota is taking steps to address odors from its recycling facility. The tribe hired an industrial hygienist and has set up odor monitoring devices. If any odor is detected, the tribe will adjust its...

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is expected to receive $13 million from the Department of Housing and Urban Development this year. The tribe must submit a plan on how it will use the money to HUD by July 1,...

Potential federal recognition of the Mishewal Wappo Tribe of California will be discussed at a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs on Thursday. The tribe was terminated by an act of Congress. But a lawsuit...

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee will hold a business meeting this Thursday. Seven bills are on the agenda. They are: 1. H.R. 443, To provide for the conveyance of certain property from the United States to the Maniilaq Association located...

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has declined an invitation to testify before the House Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs. The subcommittee is holding a hearing this Wednesday on federal recognition. Neither Salazar, nor anyone from the Bureau of Indian...

"A number of American Indian tribes produce food products, usually items like wild rice, pemmican and fry-bread mixes. The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, of the Capay Valley in Northern California, has gone farther. Last year, the tribe — which has...

Antone Minthorn, a former chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, is running for Oregon State Senate. Minthorn, 77, won the Democratic nomination for Senate District 29 through a write-in campaign, The East Oregonian reported. He will...

The Indian Health Service might end up owing at least $2.7 million as part of a self-determination case in Alaska. Arctic Slope Native Association manages the Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital under a self-determination agreement with IHS. The organization claims it's...

Tribes in New Mexico said state officials haven't done enough to consult them about proposed changes in the Medicaid program. The state's Human Services Department is seeking a waiver from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in order to...

A state judge in Oklahoma has assumed control of a bank account holding $6.4 million owned by the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. Judge Doug Haught said rival tribal factions will have to ask for the court's permission to withdraw money...

Voters of the Quechan Nation go to the polls today to decide the fate of President Keeny Escalanti. Escalanti was elected last June. He was the first new president of the tribe since 1995. A year into his first term,...

"Rape is at epidemic levels among Native Americans. Some mothers seek out Plan B for “when” their daughters get raped — not “if.” The numbers bear out their fears. In some rural villages, rapes are 12 times more common than...

Juvenile homicide offenders cannot be punished to mandatory life sentences, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday. By a 5-4 vote, the justices ruled that mandatory life sentences violate the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which bans cruel and...

"Having given the subject of conspiracy a great deal of thought, it recently occurred to me that the history of U.S. Indian policy provides a great deal of evidence about white men conspiring (planning) to eliminate American Indians. Take the...

"This installment of the Modern-Day Indigenous Warriors Series is dedicated to a person that I don’t know. At all. Yet, I watch this person and pay close attention to his work, stalker-style, admiring from a distance and thankful that he’s...